{"id":23,"date":"2012-07-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/davidnosker\/?p=23"},"modified":"2026-07-31T20:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:14:12","slug":"colorado-shooting-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/davidnosker\/colorado-shooting-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Shooting Story of Thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-98\" style=\"margin-left: 10px;margin-right: 10px;border: 0px\" src=\"\/davidnosker\/files\/2012\/07\/Colorado-Shooting.jpg\" alt=\"Colorado Shooting - Aurora Movie Theater\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\"\/>Whenever something\u00a0horrific\u00a0happens, especially when it hits close to home such as the <strong>Colorado shooting<\/strong> at the Aurora movie theater, I feel pulled into telling a story of thanks instead of the normal downer stories many people will post.<\/h2>\n<p>I want to start this post off first by paying my deepest sympathy to the families of those lost in this senseless act. I cannot even begin to understand what they are going through. There is so much more than will ever be reported in the Colorado shooting story and there are many more victims in this than just the actual shooting victims.<\/p>\n<p>I do know what I felt when I woke to the news of the Colorado shooting story as I watched the chaos happening close to my home here in my beloved State of Colorado. While I felt the sadness like everyone, I also could not help but feel the burning question of simply \u201cWHY?\u201d. And then it hit me that perhaps there will never come a real answer to this and we will be left to continue to ask the question for years to come.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is a video that shows breaking news and info about the \u201cColorado Shooting\u201d:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<h3>After reflecting on the entire Colorado shooting story I remembered what I was always taught in my younger years; \u201cAlways look for the good no matter what or how bad the\u00a0circumstance\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>While I am yet to find the good that will come out of any of this, I am only able to relflect on the good that I saw, ONLY for the reason to try and take at least some of the sadness away today.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>\u201cI give thanks to all the law\u00a0enforcement\u00a0agencies and everyone involved who stopped and prevented any further killings from the suspect. I give thanks to everyone who helped in any way to\u00a0comfort\u00a0the victims and provide medical help\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>How has the Colorado shooting story made you feel and do you have positive thoughts you can give to others?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever something\u00a0horrific\u00a0happens, especially when it hits close to home such as the Colorado shooting at the Aurora movie theater, I feel pulled into telling a story of thanks instead of the normal downer stories many people will post. I want to start this post off first by paying my deepest sympathy to the families of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,5,3,6,7,8,9],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-blogging-resources-and-tips","category-employment","category-empower-network-articles","category-financial","category-google-traffic","category-health-and-beauty","category-news","tag-colorado-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/davidnosker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/davidnosker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/davidnosker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/davidnosker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/davidnosker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/davidnosker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/davidnosker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/davidnosker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/davidnosker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/davidnosker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}